| name | axis-validation |
| description | SOP for validating that candidate axes are independent and meaningful. |
| execution | sop |
| used-by | axis-extraction |
Axis Validation
Verify that candidate dimensions are truly independent and meaningful.
Tool
vault_query_graph + vault_search
Protocol
- For each pair of candidate dimensions, check: can one change without the other changing?
- Search literature for examples where dimensions vary independently
- If dimensions always co-vary, merge them into one
- If a dimension has only 1 value in practice, it's not a useful dimension — remove it
HARD-GATE
Must test pairwise independence for all candidate dimensions.
Yield
Returns: { validated: string[], merged: string[], removed: string[] }